959 certified filings with a worksite in this city · FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3)
Reported wages are what employers filed with the Department of Labor — not actual take-home pay. Filings are counted by worksite, so a company headquartered elsewhere appears here if the job is here.
FY2025 median across the 191 filings that reported a wage for a worksite in Lake Forest, IL — of 959 certified filings in total. DOL LCA · FY2025
| Fiscal year | Filed wage | Wage sample (n) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 (through Q3) | $134,899 median of 98 | 98 |
| FY2025 | $124,000 median of 191 | 191 |
| FY2024 | $121,871 median of 144 | 144 |
| FY2023 | $125,031 median of 148 | 148 |
| FY2022 | $116,059 median of 196 | 196 |
| FY2021 | $106,300 median of 181 | 181 |
How these wages are computed · All cities · All job titles
Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC LCA disclosure files (ETA-9035) · Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) ·Updated 2026-08-28 · Basis worksite city as filed; median not average
Filings from Lake Forest, IL fall inside the federal statistical area CHICAGO-NAPERVILLE-ELGIN, IL-IN-WI. That area is larger than this city — it spans several cities and, where the name says so, more than one state. Everything on this page is computed from filings whose worksite city is Lake Forest itself, so the numbers above are city figures, not area figures.
| Employer | Filed wage | Wage sample (n) |
|---|---|---|
| Grainger Management LLC | $135,000 median of 266 | 266 |
| W.W. Grainger, Inc. | $136,578 median of 123 | 123 |
| Grainger Corporate Services LLC | $142,211 median of 86 | 86 |
| Abbott Laboratories | $114,000 median of 56 | 56 |
| Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp | $92,061 median of 40 | 40 |
| Tata Consultancy Services Limited | $75,754 median of 39 | 39 |
| Hexaware Technologies, Inc. | $82,368 median of 37 | 37 |
| Pactiv LLC | $97,000 median of 21 | 21 |
| Lake Forest College | $57,845 median of 18 | 18 |
| ICU Medical, Inc. | $135,000 median of 15 | 15 |
| cGMP Consulting Inc. | $84,805 median of 14 | 14 |
| Alere Inc. | $120,000 median of 13 | 13 |
| Itc Infotech (Usa), Inc. | $78,354 median of 13 | 13 |
| Illinois Tool Works Inc. | 9 filings — too few for a median | 9 |
| Northwestern Memorial HealthCare | 8 filings — too few for a median | 8 |
| Pfizer Inc. | 7 filings — too few for a median | 7 |
| Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc. | 7 filings — too few for a median | 7 |
| Packaging Corporation of America Fewer than 10 certified filings, so this employer does not have its own page. | 7 filings — too few for a median | 7 |
| Pasquesi Sheppard LLC Fewer than 10 certified filings, so this employer does not have its own page. | 7 filings — too few for a median | 7 |
| Akorn Operating Company LLC | 6 filings — too few for a median | 6 |
| Collaborate Solutions Inc. | 5 filings — too few for a median | 5 |
| Ernst & Young U.S. LLP | 5 filings — too few for a median | 5 |
| Accenture LLP | 4 filings — too few for a median | 4 |
| Frontier IT Solutions Inc | 4 filings — too few for a median | 4 |
| PeritusHub LLC Fewer than 10 certified filings, so this employer does not have its own page. | 4 filings — too few for a median | 4 |
Ranked by number of filings, not by pay and not by quality. This is not a “best employers” list. Employers with fewer than 10 filings here show the count only. 123 employers in total filed for a worksite in Lake Forest; the 25 above are those with the most filings. Those with at least 10 certified filings have their own page; the rest are counted here but do not.
Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC LCA disclosure files (ETA-9035) · Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) ·Updated 2026-08-28 ·Basis worksite city as filed; counted across the whole coverage period, not one year
The table above ranks employers by how many roles they filed for a worksite here. This list is a different question: employers whose filing address is in Lake Forest, IL, that have their own page, and that are not already in that table. The two are not the same set — an employer can be headquartered here and file most of its roles elsewhere.
DRiV Automotive Inc. (51)
Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC LCA disclosure files (ETA-9035, employer address as filed) ·Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) ·Basis employer filing address, not worksite; counts are that employer’s certified filings everywhere, not only in Lake Forest
We build a page for a city once it has at least 50 certified filings — 2,578 cities qualify, and 2,298 of those also clear our content threshold and are listed in the city index. Below the filing threshold we do not publish a median, because a median from a small number of filings reads like a market rate and is not one. Those filings are still counted on their employer's page.